Ire-fence fastener



(No Model.)

L. CLARK. WIRE FENCE FASTENBR.

Patented Feb. 16, 1897.-

I PATENT Fries.

LEANDER CLARK, OF GREENVILLE, OHIO.

WIRE-FENCE FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 577,357, dated February 16, 1897.

Application filed September 24, 1896. Serial No. 606,868. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEANDER CLARK, of Greenville, in the county of Darke and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire-Fence Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fence-wire fasteners for use in connection with either fence pickets or posts; and it consists in the particular construction and arrangement of parts which will be fully described hereinafter and particularly referred to in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a fence-wire fastener consisting of a doubled or looped wire which is made to straddle the fence-wire at one side of the picket or post, as the case may be, and then is passed through an opening therein and wrapped around the wire at one or both sides of the post or picket.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a post or picket with my fastener applied thereto, the fence-wire being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detached View of one of the fasteners before it is applied. Fig. 3 is a view showing the invention applied to a picket fence, and Fig. 4 is a viewshowing the loop passed through the post ready for application.

In Fig. 1 I show the fastener applied in slightly-different ways. In each instance, however, the same form of loop or double fastener is used, and the spirit of the invention is not departed from in either form of application.

A is a metallic fence picket or post, here shown as being U-shaped in cross-section, though any specific form of post may be used. The picket or post is provided at one side with the openings B, through which the wire loop is passed, as shown in Fig. 4.

The fastener consists of a wire loop O, having the two parallel arms or portions a, the doubled portion of the loop being bent laterally, as shown at b, and projecting beyond the face of the picket or post a sufficient distance to receive the fence-wire therethrough.

The loop can be first straddled over the wire aud then passed through the openings in the picket or post, or the loop can be first passed through the openings in the picket or post and the fence-wire passed through the laterally-extending loop portion thereafter, as may be desired. The method of application in this respect does not form any part of the invention, this relating to the specific form of loop and the manner of wrapping its arms around the fence-wire.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that the projecting ends of the loop portion are wrapped around the fence-wire at the opposite side of the picket or post from the doubled portion thereof. In this instance the parallel arms of the fastener are made the same length.

The cent-er fastener of Fig. 1 has one arm of the fastener wrapped around the wire at the opposite side from the doubled portion and the other arm passed around behind the picket or post, as shown at d, and then wrapped around the fence-wire at the same side of the picket or post and adjacent to the doubled portion 1). In this instance one of the parallel arms a is made longer than the other to, permit its passage around behind the fence picket or post, as just described, and as will be readily understood.

The fastener shown at the bottom of Fig. 1 has its parallel arms passed through the opening in the picket or post in the same manner as in the two previously-described applications of the fastener. In this instance the upper arm of the fastener is wrapped around the wire at the opposite side of the picket or post from the doubled portion 5, and the lower arm of the fastener is passed under and around the fence-wire and over the inner portion of the wrapped end of the other arm around behind the picket or post and its end then coiled around the fence-wire at the same side of the post or picket and adjacent to the doubled portion of the fastener the same as in the central illustration of Fig. 1.

If desired, the fastener may be applied to a picket fence, as shown in Fig. 3, or directly to a post, and the post may have its edges split and bent outward, as shown in Fig. 4, to form lateral wings.

A fastener of the above description is most simple in construction and easy of application, while at the same time it is cheap.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A Wire-fastener consisting of parallel arms and a laterally-projecting doubled portion receiving the fence-Wire, the said arms attached to the picket or post and coiled around the fence-Wire, substantially as described.

2. A wire-fastener consisting of parallel arms and a doubled portion receiving the fence-wire, the said arms attached to the picket or post, one arm Wrapped around the fence-Wire at the opposite side of the picket or post from the looped portion, and the opposite arm passed around behind the picket or post and coiled around the fence-Wire at the opposite side of the post adjacent to the doubled portion, substantially as described. 3. A wire-fastener consisting of parallel arms and a doubled portion receiving the fence-wire, the arms attached to the post, one of said arms coiled around the wire at the opposite side of the picket or post from the doubled portion, the other arm doubled around the fence-Wire adjacent to the said coil, passed around behind the picket or post and then coiled around the fence-wire at the opposite side of the post adjacent to the looped portion, substantially as described.

I11 testimony whereof I ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEANDER CLARK.

\Vitnesses:

J. R. Sroexna, V. G. STUBBs. 

